Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition: Over 70 recipes for transforming your data into business-critical insights using Splunk - Softcover

Josh Diakun; Paul R Johnson; Derek Mock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788835239 ISBN 13: 9781788835237

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2018

Synopsis

Leverage Splunk's operational intelligence capabilities to unlock new hidden business insights and drive success

Key Features

• Tackle any problems related to searching and analyzing your data with Splunk
• Get the latest information and business insights on Splunk 7.x
• Explore the all new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.x

Book Description

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics.

With more than 70 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk's features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you'll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization.

You'll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You'll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization.

Throughout the book, you'll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you're taking advantage of it.

What you will learn

• Learn how to use Splunk to gather, analyze, and report on data
• Create dashboards and visualizations that make data meaningful
• Build an intelligent application with extensive functionalities
• Enrich operational data with lookups and workflows
• Model and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reporting
• Apply ML algorithms for forecasting and anomaly detection
• Summarize data for long term trending, reporting, and analysis
• Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk's API

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for data professionals who are looking to leverage the Splunk Enterprise platform as a valuable operational intelligence tool. The recipes provided in this book will appeal to individuals from all facets of business, IT, security, product, marketing, and many more! Even the existing users of Splunk who want to upgrade and get up and running with Splunk 7.x will find this book to be of great value.

Table of Contents

1. Play Time – Getting Data In and Setup
2. Diving into Data – Search and Report
3. Dashboards and Visualizations – Make Data Shine
4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application
5. Extending Intelligence – Datasets, Modelling and Pivoting
6. Diving Deeper – Advanced Searching, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics
7. Enriching Data – Lookups and Workflows
8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts
9. Speed Up Intelligence – Data Summarization
10. Above and Beyond – Customization, Web Framework, REST API, and SDKs

About this title

About the Author

Josh Diakun is an IT operations and security specialist with a focus on creating data-driven operational processes. He has over 10 years of experience managing and architecting enterprise-grade IT environments. For the past 7 years, he has been architecting, deploying and developing on Splunk as the core platform for organizations to gain security and operational intelligence. Josh is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. He is also a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.

Paul R Johnson has over 10 years of data intelligence experience in the areas of information security, operations, and compliance. He is a partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. Paul previously worked for a Fortune 10 company, leading IT risk intelligence initiatives and managing a global Splunk deployment. Paul co-founded the Splunk Toronto User Group and lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Derek Mock is a software developer and big data architect who specializes in IT operations, information security, and cloud technologies. He has 15 years' experience developing and operating large enterprise-grade deployments and SaaS applications. He is a founding partner at Discovered Intelligence, a company specializing in data intelligence services and solutions. For the past 6 years, he has been leveraging Splunk as the core tool to deliver key operational intelligence. Derek is based in Toronto, Canada, and is a co-founder of the Splunk Toronto User Group.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1788835239
• ISBN 13: 9781788835237
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 549